Antonio Buonomo
He was already performing at the age of 12 (as a conservatory student), playing the trumpet and drums with his father in many nightclubs in Naples in front of an audience of American soldiers from the Allied Forces.
He has held seminars and specialization courses on an international level, training an entire generation of musicians with his method that are now featured soloists in illustrious orchestras and conservatory professors.
Antonio Buonomo has to be given the credit of being the first one in Italy ever to prove that percussion instruments had a life of their own, since they include all parameters of the triple music root: rhythm, melody and harmony.
He carried it out by writing ad hoc compositions and participating in radio and TV programs, as well as by playing pieces for percussion, that had never been performed in Italy, during the concerts he conducted.
Italy's most influential newspaper, the Corriere della Sera, printed the following in November 1987: “He is a real authority on rhythm: as an internationally known percussionist and virtuoso, Antonio Buonomo is a versatile and passionate teacher who has published many works on his favorite subject, from pure percussion technique and rhythm perspectives.” The most significant steps of his career, during which he has known and has collaborated with music legends like Stravinsky, Hindemith and others, can be summarized as follows: In 1983, the Minister of Public Education invited him to be part of the commission that drafted the program for percussion and solfège study for percussionists; he was called by the Opera Theatre in Rome during the Jubilee year to act as assistant conductor and music consultant, contributing to the creation of the Missa Solemnis pro Jubileo, by Franco Mannino, which had its world premiere at the Colosseum.
It was a huge international success and probably the first time that an American publisher (Leeds Music Corporation in New York) showed an interest for Italian didactic books, requesting editor Suvini-Zerboni they be translated into English.
2018 - Antonio Buonomo - Davide Summaria - I CLASSICI DELLA MUSICA ETNICA** (Classics of ethnic music) The rhythms of dance in piano teaching - MP3 download - Simeoli editions.
2019 - Antonio Buonomo - Le mani - Lo strumento naturale per suonare e accompagnare* (Hands The natural instrument for playing and accompanying ) - Simeoli Kids Editions.
ISBN 978-88-31317-04-7 Occhi sognanti (slow song) Tango del veliero Bolero classico Marialù (*) Italian-English text (**) Italian, English, German and Spanish text The two souls of the drum La strada del ritorno Vuoto Primavera all’antica (set to music by D. Summaria) Ritmo amico Foglie di lacrime (set to music by D. Summaria); assimilated it by inheritance."
